Question

I need to combine the two queries if possible or make them process one after the other. I’m assuming the $Record_Count = $Record_Count + 1; doesn’t need to be there twice since that’s just for the pagination script. (thanks in advance)

$results = mysql_query("SELECT * load_test WHERE language = '".$lang."' ORDER BY Id DESC, creationdate DESC LIMIT $start, 5");
while ($data = mysql_fetch_array($results)) {
    $Record_Count = $Record_Count + 1;

$rec_res = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM names WHERE com_id = '".$data[Id]."'");
while ($recdata = mysql_fetch_array($rec_res)) {
    $Record_Count = $Record_Count + 1; 

Answer 1

IF $Record_Count is just counting the number of returned rows you could always use mysql_num_rows()

$results = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM load_test WHERE language = '".$lang."' ORDER BY Id DESC, creationdate DESC LIMIT $start, 5");
$rec_res = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM names WHERE com_id = '".$data[Id]."'");

$Record_Count += mysql_num_rows($result) + mysql_num_rows($rec_res);